Audio tapes to garage band

I am trying to use garage band to make cd's from old audio tape contents. After I have got the music into garage band and made all of the changes to improve the quality on the master track, how do I seperate the track so that my cd when burnt won't be one continuous track, and how do I burn it to a cd?
Thanks
Barry
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

An audio editor is better suited to this task:
http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#audioeditors
However you can do what you want by using the Cycle
Region button and stretching the yellow bar around
each song (portion of the track) and exporting.
Thanks for replying
Does this mean that I cannot use garageband for the purpose that I mentioned.
I did read an article in a Mac magazine expressing that making cd's from old audio tapes is possible with garageband, hence me purchasing it. But like all Mac products the manuals are so uninformative.
Barry

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